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Showing how a country minister's daughter lived fretfully in the monotony of a dull household, until she learned through bitter experience the need for self-subjection in the joy of living for others.

From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus

But the future acts of will can be calculated from its known union with, and self-subjection to the reason and sensitivity.

From A Review of Edwards's by Tappan, Henry Philip

Her little phrase of self-subjection, and its tremulous tone, called for another answer than this.

From New Grub Street by Gissing, George

Daisy, you are wiser than those who sit down and write books or preach sermons on self-subjection, as if it were not the very hardest thing in this world.

From Daisy Burns (Volume 1) by Kavanagh, Julia